Back to Basics: Rails to PHP
Great post by the CD Baby's Derek Sivers about how he tried to convert the entire site to Rails then scrapped the entire effort after 2 years and went back to PHP:
Back in January 2005, I announced on the O’Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails, from scratch.
I hired one of the best Rails programmers in the world and we set off on this huge task with intensity. The first few months showed good progress, and Jeremy could...
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